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Press and Speech under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent
No full textHistorians typically describe America’s freedoms of speech and press as late-blooming constitutional rights. Despite the First Amendment’s explicit textual protections for expression, the story goes, the framers of the Constitution and the first Supreme Court justices viewed speech and press liberties quite narrowly
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No full textThis is the back matter for Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 142, Number
The Making of Tocqueville’s America: Law and Association in the Early United States
No full textWhen Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about his travels in the United States, he famously celebrated its vibrant voluntary culture as one of the hallmarks of the young nation. Kevin Butterfield’s recent book provides fresh perspective on a familiar phenomenon by positioning these organizations not only in civil society but in an evolving and distinctly American legal culture
The Schenley Experiment: A Social History of Pittsburgh’s First Public High School
No full textJake Oresick has written a fascinating history of Pittsburgh’s Schenley High School. This concise volume, however, chronicles more than just the history of one school; Oresick also uses Schenley’s story to elucidate the history of Pittsburgh and, to an even wider extent, public education in the United States
"Never Did I See So Universal a Frenzy": The Panic of 1791 and the Republicanization of Philadelphia
No full textIn the late summer and early fall of 1791, the United States experienced its first financial panic. With public confidence in the constitutional regime already low, the Hamilton Treasury faced a collapse in the prices of Bank of the United States script and US securities. Despite the Treasury\u27s novel and paradigm-setting bailout of financial markets, the panic resulted in profound political and cultural shifts in Philadelphia. The shock of financial crisis played a pivotal role in converting Philadelphia from a Federalist stronghold into the epicenter of early American Jeffersonian Republicanism
Improving Independence: The Struggle over Land Surveys in Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1794
No full textIn the midst of the Northwest Indian War, the former surveyor John Adlum’s operations as a land agent and his dealings with Cornplanter and other Allegany Senecas helped place a large portion of northwestern Pennsylvania in the hands of wealthy speculators. This article describes the complexity of the postrevolutionary clashes over land between governments, settlers, speculators, and Native Americans. It also demonstrates the critical role of surveyors in land speculation and settlement
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No full textThe Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography is issuing a call for articles to be included in a special issue on women and politics in Pennsylvania history, scheduled for publication in October 2020
Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia’s Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal
No full textIndependent scholar Sharon McConnell-Sidorick’s engaging history of a radical labor union in 1920s Philadelphia speaks to some of the most exciting developments in labor and women’s history
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No full textThis is the front matter for Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 142, Number 1 for January 2018
The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping
No full textLucy Maddox’s book, The Parker Sisters, purports to be about the dramatic kidnapping of Elizabeth and Rachel Parker, free African American women who lived and worked in the free state of Pennsylvania’s southernmost county (Chester County), close to the border of the slave state of Maryland